2: Election 2020 presented by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette & Highmark
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
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🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Executive Editor Emeritus David Shribman moderates a panel with our hosts Al Hunt and James Carville. 'Election 2020' presented by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette & Highmark Health was recorded in front of a live audience at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Albert Einstein here. Today I've popped into Dev's cafe. He's one of many business owners |
| 0:07.3 | who are already using a smart meter to feel more in control of their budgeting. A smart meter helps |
| 0:13.4 | you track your energy use and costs over time. So you know how much you're spending on your energy |
| 0:19.3 | bills. Meaning less time guessing and more time to focus on the other important... Do you want milk |
| 0:24.3 | with that? Pits of your business. Such can a smart meter today. A legibility may vary consumer |
| 0:29.2 | action required. Welcome to the second edition of 2020 Politics Warram. James I thought we had |
| 0:37.3 | peaked with Nancy Pelosi last week but you know we're in Pittsburgh tonight and that's almost as |
| 0:42.0 | good as Speaker Pelosi. Yeah it was great night. I had a good time. It was a good crowd |
| 0:45.8 | of the provocative conversation though. I thought it was great. I mean there's just so much |
| 0:50.0 | interest in this election. People here were very passionate and they're very involved and it was |
| 0:54.6 | a lot of fun. And it's one of the great cities in America. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I love this |
| 0:58.8 | work. Absolutely. Now let's turn it over to Iris Steamed and I mean a steamed moderator David Trimman |
| 1:04.6 | the editor emeritus of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. What's emeritus mean? I don't know. I want |
| 1:09.2 | to be that. Do I like the word? Very very very prestigious to be emeritus. I think you're too young to be |
| 1:14.4 | emeritus. Well good evening everybody. Well welcome to this election 2020 presidential |
| 1:26.5 | conversation presented by the Post Gazette and sponsored by Highmark. And this is a conversation |
| 1:32.6 | that the three of us have been having for about 35 years. We've just invited 750 of our closest |
| 1:38.1 | friends to join us. Well I'm David Trimman. I'm the Executive Editor Emeritus of the Post Gazette |
| 1:43.4 | and I'm delighted to have two of my friends here to my right. To your left is Al Hunt who has had |
| 1:50.7 | several titles but the one that's important to me is that he was the Washington Bureau Chief of the |
| 1:57.8 | Wall Street Journal when he hired me 35 years ago. He's made some better judgments since then and |
| 2:04.7 | we'll expect to... So you. Yeah. Turn up and to my left to you right is James Carville who my first |
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